Chrístian
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Chrístian is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Cameroon it is the 13th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From English Christian, from Latin Chrīstiānus, from Ancient Greek Χρῑστιᾱνός (Khrīstiānós), from Χρῑστός (Khrīstós, “Christ, anointed one”).
- CHSwitzerland≈1 in 200(inferred from the name graph)
- ECEcuador1 in 309
- FRFrance≈1 in 360
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- #593 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 514 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 109 (inferred from the name graph)
415,787 people, 2020
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Austria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Christian in FR France, US United States, PH Philippines and 5 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)- EnglishChristian(measured from records)
- LatinChrīstiānus(measured from records)
- Ancient GreekΧρῑστιᾱνόςKhrīstiānós(measured from records)
- Ancient Greek rootΧρῑστόςKhrīstós“Christ, anointed one”(measured from records)
From English Christian, from Latin Chrīstiānus, from Ancient Greek Χρῑστιᾱνός (Khrīstiānós), from Χρῑστός (Khrīstós, “Christ, anointed one”).
Cited for this meaning 8
- A concise dictionary of first names
- A dictionary of surnames
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
- Wiktionary
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Chrístian counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #863 | 415,787 | 1 in 800 | 398K | Christian | 514 |
| PH Philippines | #46 | ≈190,000 est. | ≈1 in 561 | — | Christian | 158 |
| FR France | #44 | ≈190,000 est. | ≈1 in 360 | 406K | Christian | 450 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈81,000 est. | ≈1 in 109 | 21K | — | 2 |
| CM Cameroon | #13 | ≈73,000 est. | ≈1 in 382 | — | Christian | 57 |
| EC Ecuador | #109 | 54,783 | 1 in 309 | 55K | Christian | 106 |
| CH Switzerland | #93 | ≈42,000 est. | ≈1 in 200 | 58 | Christian | 141 |
| SE Sweden | — | 39,858 | 1 in 256 | 40K | Christian | 79 |
| DK Denmark | — | 37,349 | 1 in 157 | 37K | Christian | 4 |
415,787 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INEC — civil registry names; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Chrístian mean, and where does it come from?
- From English Christian, from Latin Chrīstiānus, from Ancient Greek Χρῑστιᾱνός (Khrīstiānós), from Χρῑστός (Khrīstós, “Christ, anointed one”). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and A dictionary of surnames and 6 other sources.
- Is Chrístian a male or female name?
- Chrístian is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Chrístian have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 416 thousand people named Chrístian, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled christian.
- How common is the name Chrístian?
- In the United States, the national register counted 415,787 people named Chrístian in 2020, about 1 in 800 residents.
- How common is Chrístian compared with other names?
- In the United States, Chrístian is the 863rd most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/chr%C3%ADstianThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Chrístian” — the 863rd most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.